Background Local Area Network (LAN) campus and building backbones as well as Data Center backbones are migrating to higher cabled fiber counts to meet increasing system bandwidth needs. In many cases, Ribbon Fiber Cables are now being deployed to meet this need, as they provide the highest fiber density relative to cable size, maximize use […]
Fiber Connectors
Fiber Optic Cleaning and Inspection of Connectors & Adapters
Fiber optic cleaning is critical to the performance of optical communication networks. Contamination on a connector end face, even if only at the microscopic level, can create severe problems. Traditional single mode fiber optic core diameters are approximately 9 microns. By comparison, a human hair is 50 microns or larger in diameter. Contamination that blocks the […]
History of Different Fiber Optic Connector Types
Nowadays fiber optic connector comes in several varieties, including SC, ST, LC, FC, MTRJ, E-2000, MU, MPO/MTP, etc. However, choosing an optical connector was proved to be extremely difficult in the ealier fiber cabling constructions. Here lists the history of different fiber optic connector types, which could probably make some help. The ST connector is […]
Small Form Factor Fiber Optic Connectors
Since the 1990s, many small form factor (SFF) fiber optic connectors have been developed to fill the interest in devices that may fit into tight spaces and permit denser packing of connections such as fiber patch cables. Some are miniaturized versions of older connectors, built around a 1.25mm ferrule rather than the 2.5mm ferrule used […]
The Technology Of Fiber Optic Connection
As the rapid growth and development of network, we create a lot of network application updates and upgrades almost every couple of years. Facing the situation of rising demand, fiber cabling has become the best answer. There are lots of different parameters indicators to examine the performance of different network media. Copper networks use electrical […]
The Connection Among Fiber Terminal Box, Patch Cable And Pigtail
Generally in the network cabling, outdoors (connection between buildings) use fiber optic cables, while indoors (inside buildings) use Ethernet twisted pair cables. Then how to convert the transmission media between the Outdoor Optical Network and the Indoor Ethernet Network? And what devices are used in the connection? What roles do they play? How about the […]